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  2. The Nature of Mass Poverty - Wikipedia

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    In general, as for developed countries, emigration and embracing other cultures are not seen as a problem but a sign of action and willingness to escape unsustainable status. The more literate and informed a population, the more influences and cultures they have available as role models, and the more motivated its members are to escape ...

  3. Theories of poverty - Wikipedia

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    When poverty is prescribed agency, poverty becomes something that happens to people. Poverty absorbs people into itself and the people, in turn, become a part of poverty, devoid of their human characteristics. In the same way, poverty, according to Green, is viewed as an object in which all social relations (and persons involved) are obscured.

  4. Culture of poverty - Wikipedia

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    The culture of poverty frames low-income earners as existing within a culture that perpetuates poverty in a generational cycle. The theory suggests that the economic climate does not play a significant role in poverty. Those existing within a culture of poverty largely bring poverty upon themselves through acquired habits and behaviours.

  5. Causes of poverty - Wikipedia

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    According to Russia's State Statistics Service (Rosstat), Russia's poverty statistics equaled 14.3%, or 20.9 million people versus 13.9%, or 20.4 million people, in the first three months of 2018. [54] The causes of poverty in Russia are complex: a shrinking economy, inflation, falling oil prices and in a rise in "consumer prices".

  6. General Tinio - Wikipedia

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    Poverty incidence of General Tinio 5 10 15 20 2006 19.70 2009 15.69 2012 15.38 2015 14.92 2018 5.10 2021 12.61 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Government Local government Main article: Sangguniang Bayan The following have led the town from its birth in 1921 to what it had become today. American Colonial Period (1898 - 1935) Municipal President Municipal Vice President Term Cristobal ...

  7. Genteel poverty - Wikipedia

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    Genteel poverty is a state of poverty marked by one's connection or affectation towards a higher ("genteel") social class. [1] Those in genteel poverty are often people, possibly titled , who have fallen from wealth due to various circumstances.

  8. Social determinants of health in poverty - Wikipedia

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    It is measured in relation to the 'poverty line' or the lowest amount of money needed to sustain human life. [2] Relative poverty is "the inability to afford the goods, services, and activities needed to fully participate in a given society." [2] Relative poverty still results in bad health outcomes because of the diminished agency of the ...

  9. Social theory - Wikipedia

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    Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. [1] A tool used by social scientists, social theories relate to historical debates over the validity and reliability of different methodologies (e.g. positivism and antipositivism), the primacy of either structure or agency, as well as the relationship between contingency and necessity.